Authors Jim Hougan (Secret Agenga) and Jack Owens (novelist and former agent for the FBI) discuss with host Matthew Stevenson the Watergate break-in and scandal that brought down the Nixon administration in 1974.

Navy veteran of the kamikaze battles off Okinawa and Bucknell University Professor of English John Wheatcroft talks with host Matthew Stevenson about how his experiences in the Pacific War shaped his writing, many books, novels, poetry, and life.

Lincoln's indispensible man, William Seward, lived most of his adult life in Auburn, NY, that is, when he wasn't governor of New York, a US senator, or Secretary of State during the Civil War. Host Matthew Stevenson speaks with Andy Roblee of the William Seward House.